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Miller returned to the House race this year with the same conservative politics as in 1994, but with more money. She supports House majority leader Dick Armey's flat-tax plan or "virtually any other tax cut." A mom who schooled her daughter at home, she favors tuition tax credits that give parents the choice between public, private and home schooling. Miller opposed both the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons...
...chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he brandished two knives and a machete to show how he would cut the budget. Fortunately, from that powerful position he was also able to funnel federal money into Jefferson Parish's Avondale shipyard, where he once worked summers to pay his college tuition...
...Title 1 (for low-income elementary and high school students), Head Start and student-loan programs; he secured $225,000 for Internet access for his district's schools; and in a district that is home to eight of the state's 30 public colleges, he supports tax breaks for tuition...
...parents making less than $75,000 a $5,000 tax credit for adopting a child. (Earning $133,600, Pomeroy wouldn't qualify for the benefit.) The two-term incumbent has also introduced legislation to reduce health-insurance costs for the self-employed and allow income-tax deductions for college tuition...
Despite his lack of political experience, James jumped into the race to fight what he considers the extremism of incumbent Gerald Solomon, especially on the assault-weapons ban. He also favors a $10,000 tuition tax deduction and a $1,500 tax credit for families working to put a child through college. James advocates cutting waste and eliminating duplication and says his skills as an entrepreneur and dairy owner will aid him in a district where agriculture and small business are the backbone of the economy...